Chapter 128 The Legend of Sai Jinhua II

So what happened to Sai Jinhua after she became the wife of the minister of the four countries?

Berlin Street welcomed a distant guest, and this guest was Sai Jinhua, the wife of the Minister of the Four Kingdoms.

The sound of horses' hooves and carriages crashing stones sounded from one end of Berlin Street, and a majestic motorcade approached slowly from the other end of the street.

The first to come into view were more than 20 heavily armed German cavalrymen, dressed in ancient armor and helmets, lined up in two columns, one by one, holding tall horses, slowly marching, their heavy hooves striking on the streets paved with stones, making a neat "clang" sound.

Behind the cavalry was a convoy of seven or eight two-horseed four-wheeled luxury carriages, and in the first carriage, Sai Jinhua was curiously looking through the glass windows of the carriages, excitedly looking at the majestic Western-style high-rise buildings on both sides of the street, and her heart was full of happiness and freshness.

Twenty-year-old Sai Jinhua is the best time in her life at this time, young and beautiful, and in her prime. But her journey to Europe was not pleasant, for her first child was aborted, which kept her recuperating for more than half a month while on the ship, but she endured loneliness there as a young man, and often asked her to bring in a good friend of hers, Lucia, to teach her German.

She hopes to learn a little more and be able to communicate well with people when she becomes a real minister wife in Germany.

I had to admire her talent for languages, and in the second half of the trip, she was able to chat with Lucia fluently in German.

In people's attention, their motorcade passed through several streets and stopped at No. 18 Haide Road, which was the legation of the Qing Dynasty at that time.

On the right side of the door hangs a bronze plaque that reads: "Great Qing Legation" in Chinese and German characters.

The Qing Embassy in Berlin was converted from a duke's villa, and it was very spacious and spacious.

A rectangular three-storey building, the building is magnificent and deep, a lot of flowers and trees are planted around the yard, the layout of the building is also very exquisite, banquet halls, offices, bedrooms, etc. are readily available, especially there is a small river not far behind the building, the water depth can be rowed, which makes Sai Jinhua find the feeling of living in Suzhou.

Sai Jinhua's main task abroad is to accompany her husband Hong Jun to attend various ceremonial scenes.

During these foreign stays, Sai Jinhua accompanied Hong Jun to St. Petersburg, Geneva and other places, and was also received by the German Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Aguta.

He even took a photo with Queen Victoria in England, and even met the Tsar and Empress of Russia.

During the mission, people can simply ignore the Chinese envoy Hong Jun, who will pay attention to the diplomat of a weak country! But the Oriental beauty next to the minister was full of praise, and even the German queen even called her "the first beauty of the East".

Therefore, Sai Jinhua had many admirers, and people of status and fame invited her to attend various gatherings, so she often went in and out of the European court and socialized with princes and nobles.

During this period, Sai Jinhua's natural communication skills and language talent, coupled with her exotic oriental beauty charm, coupled with the grace of jewelry, are the pomp and circumstance of attending various gatherings, making her out of the limelight in the European upper class.

And Hong Jun? It's very different, an old man in his fifties has so much energy to attend various social places, and Hong Jun's main focus is to collect information about foreign countries and understand the customs and customs of foreign countries.

However, Hong Jun himself is an archaeological fan with great academic interest in the history of the Yuan Dynasty, and when he used his position as a minister to discover a large number of Mengyuan materials in Europe, he directly fell into the academic trap and could not extricate himself.

The result is a complete relaxation of Sai Jinhua, making Sai Jinhua more unscrupulous to enter and exit various banquets, dances and other social activities.

She is cheerful, free and unrestrained, like a carefree angel who makes Westerners obsessed and jealous. Every time she came back from outside, there were four foreign maids carrying bright corner lamps to lead her upstairs, and these four foreign girls would also dress her up in the morning.

French perfume and fashion, after the combination of oriental beauties, present a perfection of oriental charm.

Even at the end of the seventeenth century, a kind of black mole makeup that was popular among Parisian women, she dared to try it, and almost set off a retro wind in a foreign land, she was like an oriental model, presenting the beauty of the East and the civilization of the West in front of people's eyes, making it a kind of beauty at that time.

Three years later, in the sixteenth year of Guangxu, Hong Jun returned to China after three years, and Sai Jinhua also ended her status as the wife of the minister of the four countries, and returned to China with Hong Jun to become the third aunt of the Hong family.

During this period, Hong Jun was impeached by the imperial history because he was deceived in the demarcation of the national border in the Pamir region, and he fell ill and died of illness three years later.

In this way, Sai Jinhua became a twenty-two-year-old **, on the way from Beijing to send Hong Jun's coffin back to his hometown in Suzhou, he returned to his parents' home with fine softness, and later moved to Shanghai in Shiliyangchang. The sun is high, hang up the sign of "Zhao Mengyuan, Zhao Menglan", and return to the old business to continue the career of a girl.

Between her cloud screen embroidery foil, a photo of Hong Jun was hung, so that all kinds of prostitutes could see the demeanor of the champion when they were clinging to her, and Fang Ze, who was able to kiss Mrs. Zhuangyuan, had a lot of different moods, so her business was very hot and prosperous at that time.

There are many versions of Sai Jinhua's exodus in history. But they were all inclined to the pressure of the Hong family, so that Sai Jinhua, who longed for freedom, absconded halfway, and later had to work in Shanghai in order to make a living.

Regarding Sai Jinhua's departure, let's end it with a little excerpt.

In Zeng Pu's (1872/1935) "Flower of the Sea of Evil", which is known as a literary novel, it mainly tells the legendary life of the famous prostitute "Sai Jinhua" in the late Qing Dynasty. In Sai Jinhua's ** career, there have been two life changes, one is to marry Hong Zhuangyuan, which gave her the opportunity to maneuver between the Qing court and foreign ministers, and experience the heart-wrenching modern history of the late Qing Dynasty. Once was to marry Wei Sijiong, an anti-Qing aspirant, under the influence of Mr. Wei's revolutionary spirit and temperament, she gave up her flashy life and resolutely chose to learn to be a person who pursues freedom and independence and self-esteem. In the history of Chinese novels, "The Flower of the Sea of Evil" is a well-deserved literary masterpiece. Its publication caused a sensation in the literary world in the early 20th century, and it was reprinted more than 10 times in a short period of time. The experts' comments were also quite enthusiastic, and the famous foreign literature translator "Lin Qinnan", a master of ancient literature, was "amazing" about it. At that time, "Lu Xun" also praised this book. In the introduction and book review of the new book written by the modern female history writer "Li Dongjun" (after the famous prostitute Sai Jinhua "ran away"): "First of all, I am a person, a person like you, at least I want to learn to be a person." These were the words of "Nala" when she ran away from home, and the sound of her slamming door shook Europe, spread to China, and awakened the thinkers of the time. When the "Nala Doctrine" spread far and wide, "Lu Xun" asked: What should I do after I run away? This famous question asks two paths, is it to fall, or to go back? There is only a dead end to go back, and there are all kinds of depravity, but for independent female surnames, it generally refers to doing **, which is needless to say. "Lu Xun" said that freedom is not something that money can buy, but it can be sold for money. The hammer of thought smashes on the anvil of reality, and the truth resounds! Is it freedom to do ** and sell? Mr. mistakenly. It is sex that is sold, not freedom, of course, a large part, there is a lack of self-awareness of freedom, and it is sold together with sex and freedom, but with free will, sex is sold for freedom. They often consciously and unconsciously choose to live freely and independently. However, the road of degeneration pointed out by "Lu Xun" has made the entire ideological circle dumbfounded.

At that time, there were two "baby" women in China, one was "Cixi" and the other was "Sai Jinhua", one was in the DPRK and the other was in the opposition, one betrayed the country to save his life, and the other sold himself to save the country. In the "Gengzi" turmoil, the German minister "Klinde" was killed by the "Boxers", and General "Wadsey" and Mrs. Klinder threatened to kill Cixi and asked Emperor Guangxu to go to Germany to apologize to the "Kaiser". At this time, Cixi was terrified and fled with Emperor Guangxu, and many ministers were helpless, so they could only look at each other and sigh. Sai Jinhua made great contributions, and with his friendship with Wadsey when he was the wife of the minister in Germany in his early years, he persuaded General Wadsey and Mrs. Klinder, thus further convincing the "German Kaiser" to exempt Cixi and Guangxu from their responsibilities. He also discouraged Wadsey from restraining his subordinates' indulgence and quelling the rebellion, thus leading to peace negotiations that saved China from extinction and the people from further suffering. It can almost be said that without Sai Jinhua's great love and noble integrity, it would have been difficult for Gengzi to achieve peace without the mediation and even the mainstay of Sai Jinhua's thoughts. Sai Jinhua was once laughed at by the Yuan family, and was also praised by the emperor in his writings. She sympathized with and befriended the revolutionaries and reported to them, collected the corpses of heroes and other chivalrous deeds, and Sai Jinhua once said to the revolutionaries: "The country is everyone's country, and it is everyone's responsibility to save the country." From these examples of "helping the common people and securing the community", it is enough to show that Sai Jinhua has the quality of Oriental women's inner pursuit of "truth, goodness and beauty". It also fully proves that Sai Jinhua not only has the idea of great love to save the country, but also has more courage and courage than the male elite.

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